Synopsis: It was 1917, China. CHENG is an innocent young man who works in a grocery store and has no ambition, other than to be with his lovely neighbor, the Peking Opera student QIU.
One fateful night changes Cheng??s life forever, he was accused of raping his female boss by the chief of police. Desolate, Cheng bonds with his cellmate MAO, who has an escape plan. The duo breaks out,and Cheng has no choice but to leave his life and his dream girl behind.
Cheng found a job owned by the HONG, an influential man in Shanghai, and he began to climb up the underworld ladder step by step. As Cheng became one of most powerful mob bosses in Shanghaiin the late 1930s, fame takes its toll when he finds himself stuck between the looming Japanese army and the scheming local secret service. To make things worse, he bumps into the love of his life Qiu,along with her writer husband. Will love re-kindle in the dusk of an era?
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